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Best Android Task Manager - Open Processes

Hello All,
I wanted to see what everyone thinks is the best application manger for Android.
Also is anyone familiar with the Getjar free app store?
Thx All,
Force

What do people think of "Advance Task Killer"
It seems to me it shows all tasks, not jsut the open ones.
Regards,
Force

FYI,
Many people say talk killers are not necessary, as that is a windows phenomenon, Linux & android treating background processes differently.
Regards,
Force

I personally use Advanced Task Manager for $0.99. I have read the articles about how Android does not need task Managers because it is built in, but I know from personal experience that without it if there are running programs in the background my phone gets really sluggish especially when I get a phone call and it makes it difficult to answer etc. Take in account, this experience was mainly with the Hero (slower) but I use on my Evo now.

You know people will argue either way, because there is evidence to support both sides of the argument. so with that in mind- i honestly havent had the need for one with my evo, but it you truly are considering one- i actually have a pair to suggest.
one is OS Monitor- free on the market- great app for pinning down process that could be an issue- also supports dmsg repporting- and logcat is built in to- so if your testing something and it goes all wonky you can export the log to view on a pc and send it to the developer too.
the second is AMM- or Auto Memory Manager- free and donate versions on the market. There are pretty much a couple of sliders and you set it how you want android to handle the process. I have had great success with this app on my other device- normal free memory was around 30-35 and using this set aggressively i saw gains of 50mb at most times keeping my freememory to around 75-80mb range.
Hope this helps.

I take both sides. I have task manager installed, but use if ONLY when needed. Aka, I used it when I want to kill the browser after I'm done with it so next time I launch it I won't be seeing old pages.

I like EStrongs Task Manager.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/nextapp.systempanel.r1 is nice, it can kill processes, monitor system stats, uninstall apps and more. There is also a free version.

TREYisRAD said:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/nextapp.systempanel.r1 is nice, it can kill processes, monitor system stats, uninstall apps and more. There is also a free version.
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i installed that last night, cool app

why someone who know don't explaine exactly how android works and do we need killers and if yes which one is best...
Everyone of us using something but question is that which one is best for our needs.

quick system info pro (free)
I only use the manual task killer widget when memory gets down around 100. Spikes it right back to about 250.
Whats your guys' normal memory range? I see someone on here saying 50 was normal for them but that seems REALLY low to me.

frifox said:
I take both sides. I have task manager installed, but use if ONLY when needed. Aka, I used it when I want to kill the browser after I'm done with it so next time I launch it I won't be seeing old pages.
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Does the stock Sense browser not have an option to kill the windows by hitting menu? On CM, I do menu, windows, and X them out

[App] AppMon...Free

Here is a new application that shows realtime CPU usage and running applications.
-Do you want to know how much the current application uses CPU?
-Do you want to know which applications you used most frequently and recently?
You can check it with AppMon in realtime!!
Features
-It shows the current usage of CPU. After or using an application, you can check how much the application have been occupying and using the CPU.
-It shows running applications and used applications according to their time and frequency.
-It shows the statistics of used applications according to day, week and month
Downlaod
-Type AppMon at Market
-https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aware.appmon&feature=search_result
Important
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Needs a lot of permissions.....reading sms ? what is the reason for that ?

Hi, your App looks interesting.
But can you the app resize for 240x320 Screenresolution?
I have it installed on my X10mini (CM 6.1.0.1) and the app works. I can see it in the Notificationbar. I cant configured theapp, but i cant skip the startscreen. It´s to large for my resolution.
Many thanks and sorry for my bad english..

uxu said:
Needs a lot of permissions.....reading sms ? what is the reason for that ?
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<silly guess>Maybe it needs permission to monitor everything in order to fully monitor the CPU usage.</silly guess>

[Q] traffic monitor/report application based on ssid

Hi,
I am looking for a traffic monitoring & reporting application based on wlan SSID.
For example, at home I use an SSID which is free and does not have any limitation.
But when mobile , I am using my wifi tethering phone and that costs money. So I'd like to specially measure how much I use on that specific SSID.
Is there such application which will measure data usage based on SSID ?
Thanks.

this is a great idea. why there is no such app in the market ?
or is there ?

why not just measure the data on your phone instead? there are plently of apps that does that.
also, not sure how you're tethering but try it via bluetooth instead, it's better on your phones batteries.
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well, I would really like to see it on the Transformer itself.
For bluetooth, Does Transformer support bluetooth DUN ?
In any case, I have a wifi 3G modem(router) which does not have any interface and can't count data. For this one, I need to access with wifi and measure on Transformer.

any ideas ?

Hi,
As I can't find any application for this.
I decided to code my own application.
But I have zero knowledge about writing apps for Android.
The application should first detect which ssid is in use
Then it should read /proc/dev/net every 5 minutes and get the difference of wlan0 in,out bytes with the previous measure of them. Then it can report the value with ssid name.
If it's easy I can also write a widget for it.
But I really have no knowledge. How can I start writing apps ?

Ok;
I got Eclipse, SDK, JDK, ADP plugin installed.
I've even created the HelloWorld.apk
It runs well.
Now I need to find out how to get connected ssid.
any developers to help ?

I got that figured.
Now I can get the ssid which the device is connected.
Let's see how to be notified of connection changes and store current bytes...

I finally managed it.
made a small change on an opensource app named NetCounter.

Any way you'd be willing to share the .apk?
mrmrmrmr said:
I finally managed it.
made a small change on an opensource app named NetCounter.
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[APP] Tasker: how to set default application?

Hi, I hope I'm posting in the right forum here!
Several people have said that the following is possible, but nobody knows how to actually do it!
I want to make tasker switch my default browser whenever I have mobile data enabled. The task would be pretty similar to the "switch input method" function, but I can't figure out how to do this.
Is it possible?
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Bump
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May I bump this?
I'm searching everywhere for a hint of whether my task is possible:
I have a plan that consists of 200 minutes, and unlimited calling to my 'Fav 10'.. I also have a data cap of 1Gig. I would like for Tasker to keep track of my minutes used (rounding up as my carrier does not bill by the second), and once it reaches a defined count (200), it'd switch my default phone dialer over to Skype for ONLY the phone numbers that are not part of my Favourite Ten (or Dell Voice, however Google Voice is not available in Canada at the moment).
Skype rates are 3cents/minute, compared to 45cents for every extra minute on my plan; it is possible to $3+tac for call forwarding, but it doesn't seem to let me exclude callers from the feature. Also, I'm trying to live within certain budgets, as I am a student.
As well, I would like to be presented with an option box, to use either my native phone dialer or Skype, if I am approaching my 1gb cap (even a MB over will cost me a large chunk of money).
So... I'm searching and continuously searching... but I ask for anyone's help who may have.
Thanks a lot everyone..
Ryan

I think it's doable, at least some of it, but you would need someone who knows a lot about the logic syntaxes in Tasker and their limitations, which I unfortunately don't.
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Thanks for the insight.
After only having Tasker for a few days, just by what I wrote above I can definitely see it as maybe possible.
But, as like you, I don't know enough of this to even begin, I'm afraid.
I'll keep an eye on this thread and bump it every so often until I give up, or until I'm told to stop

adytum said:
Hi, I hope I'm posting in the right forum here!
Several people have said that the following is possible, but nobody knows how to actually do it!
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Is it possible?
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This is not an exact "set default application", but you can try this. Make the task with shortcut (and call it myBrowser). This task will run a different apps depending on the conditions (WiFi, Mobile Data, etc.).

memberfive said:
This is not an exact "set default application", but you can try this. Make the task with shortcut (and call it myBrowser). This task will run a different apps depending on the conditions (WiFi, Mobile Data, etc.).
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Thanks, but it's over a year since I posted that, and actually started to do the exact thing you mentioned shortly thereafter myself
Sent from horseback.

Open a web page in a non-default browser / changing the default application
adytum said:
Hi, I hope I'm posting in the right forum here!
Several people have said that the following is possible, but nobody knows how to actually do it!
I want to make tasker switch my default browser whenever I have mobile data enabled. The task would be pretty similar to the "switch input method" function, but I can't figure out how to do this.
Is it possible?
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Prerequisites:
1. Root access
2. Tasker installed
It depends on the Action/Mime Type that you want to change but for opening an url in a non-default browser this works - I tested it.
Create new task: Misc>Send Intent
Action: android.intent.action.VIEW
Cat: None
Mime blank
Data: "your url"
Extra blank
Package: com.android.browser or com.webbrowserminiapp or "the package of whatever browser you want to use"
Class blank
Target: Activity
The rest is peace of cake.

[TUTORIAL] Management and optimization of RAM

What is Android exactly?
Android is a multitasking operating system, and has been designed from the outset as a system where there was the need of having to close applications. Yes, Google engineers have deliberately made sure that the applications did not need to be closed, and that was the system itself decides when and why close them.
If you look at all applications developed for Android by Google, none of them has a key "exit" to exit, this is because Android is a system designed thinking of the many activities that a normal user plays with the smartphone every day and based on This was done so that the system can efficiently manage the switch from one application to another, from one service to another, without burdening the user decide when, how and why close an application, Imagine what you would normally do , call a friend, send a text message, reply to an e-mail, take a peek at Facebook, news, or give an eye to the weather. There districhiamo between myriads of applications, and the system makes sure as far as possible, to keep in memory all the applications that use repeatedly, either because they will be much faster ripescarle from RAM, rather than from the external memory, either because ripescarle from RAM and not reopen them from scratch, you consume less battery power and processor clock cycles.
This means that Android, inside, has his task killer (yes) and that has precisely the task of managing the best processes and applications, to understand when it's time to close those less useful. But ... the question arises, there is a difference between process and application?
The answer is obviously yes, and now let's see what they are and what they do.
What is the process?
A process is an activity that can be performed by one or more applications. When you think of an application you think of something, such as listening to music, send a Facebook message or synchronize your rss feed,
these processes are rather
Because they are the actions that the application triggers to perform its task. However, it is important to note that just because there is a process in memory, with no known function, does not mean that this process is redundant or not doing anything. In fact, the processes can be in a state of inactivity or active.
What is an application?
An application is something that makes use of many different processes to provide some functionality. For example, applications for Facebook and Twitter, or GPS navigators, or even games etc.. etc. ..
An application can be active or inactive, depending on whether it has all the active processes or not currently associated with it.
When we ship an application, the system allows him to keep his job running in the background (true multitasking), allowing it to continue to do its job.
For example, continue to download emails or listen to music, or download a web page. However, just because the applications leave processes "running" in the background, does not mean that these are not really doing anything or are unnecessary. They are kept in memory if you plan to reuse them again soon. Many people think that this generates an unnecessary battery consumption, but this is not true.
The footprint of an application "inactive" at a given time in memory uses exactly the same amount of battery as it would be if that portion of memory would be free.
What happens if the memory is too low?
We said that Android has its own internal task killer and is smart enough to recognize when you are running out of available memory, in the case will start to close all applications that are low priority for him.
The way it determines the priority we shall see shortly, but in a nutshell means that applications that use less or that are not critical for the phone will be closed first. The latest to be closed, but will be applications that are currently in the foreground, and are therefore critical applications, such as the alarm.
When Android closes applications to free memory, as I said before, he does so very clever because the next time you reopen an application closed, causes to be restored, as if it had never been closed (this is what IOS currently called multitasking, but in reality is only a freezare the application).
So this means that the application of "killing tasks" that are springing up in the market, they only interfere substantially throughout this administration, also creates potential problems of instability and poor performance of the terminal.
So let's see, before continuing to debunk the stereotypes that affect Task Killer
1) The Task Killer make my terminal faster -
FALSE
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In contrast, task killer makes the system potentially unstable and jerky. Processes kill indiscriminately is harmful, because maybe you can kill processes shared among multiple applications, and this means that the system is forced to re-open applications constantly, to reopen the process shared, and groped to restore the kill maybe just brutal while the task was doing an activity. And this can generate crash or lag that we think will result from the applications themselves, and instead we create all this ...
2) The Task Killer lengthen battery life -
FALSE
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The Task Killer when they do exactly the opposite ... reduce the battery life!
When an application is freed killa that window of memory occupied, but almost certainly immediately after the re-open, or when the re-open, it will happen that instead of fetch it out again from the RAM, will reopen from zero and this generates more work to the system and to the terminal that it will use up more energy. Since I uninstalled Automatic Task Killer, I have to admit a longer battery life, because before ATK was always pretty nice to them to kill everything in memory and Android reopened shortly after 80% of what moments before had been closed ... This is just the beat and Ribatti antibatteria for excellence ...
3) Using a Task Killer because I do not have the exit button in the application -
FALSE
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There is no exit button, because Android is designed to prevent the user from the need to close applications. If an application needs to be closed, the Android will be when the time comes.
4) But then the Task Killer does not need to own anything? -
FALSE
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The applications developed for Android does not have any programming model, poorly developed some applications may generate system instability and prevent proper operation of the terminal. In this case it may be useful to kill one such application that generates problems to recover the situation and uninstall. In this case, use the Task Killer manual, which allow you to decide when and why kill such an application or process.

Thanks for this tutorial :good:

DarkJohn said:
Thanks for this tutorial :good:
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thanks .. I hope that clarifies some ideas

Thanks for sharing.
SO what is your recommended solutions to use the memory efficiently.
Leaves it as it is ? Or..............

jbctiong said:
Thanks for sharing.
SO what is your recommended solutions to use the memory efficiently.
Leaves it as it is ? Or..............
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I can not answer, because to judge even approximate because it depends what kind of applications you have installed in your phone, however I think the tutorial explains well why and how to act on the applications in use

When I go to the home screeen, it takes some time to reload my application icons and I thought it was related to a bunch of applications running background.. so I was always stopping services that I mostly not used, but according to what you said, I'm causing the system instability, yes?
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pakdaman said:
When I go to the home screeen, it takes some time to reload my application icons and I thought it was related to a bunch of applications running background.. so I was always stopping services that I mostly not used, but according to what you said, I'm causing the system instability, yes?
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is very likely

stempox said:
I can not answer, because to judge even approximate because it depends what kind of applications you have installed in your phone, however I think the tutorial explains well why and how to act on the applications in use
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Thank you I understood.
This explains why V6SuperCharger does not work the same on everyone's phone, right?

This is a great thread for all new Android users!!
Well done! :good:

jbctiong said:
Thank you I understood.
This explains why V6SuperCharger does not work the same on everyone's phone, right?
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can be a friend : Bene:

The most simplest option is to remove all bloatware. Those are really a mess which keeps restarting and eating up RAM even after they are killed.
Or just add ".bak" extension to the apk using RootExplorer incase if u will ever need it again. I did the same.
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Thanks forma this tutorial

blonde90 said:
Thanks forma this tutorial
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thank you

thanks for the tuto

Always glad it's useful for the community

blonde90 said:
Thanks forma this tutorial
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thanks, not translated perfectly, but I understand

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Good read. Some grammatical errors but all around nice.
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Yeah, Sony kept saying this for a while to all people asking for a way to force close applications.
Still I wonder if the camera app consumes battery or can take photos when parked out/idle.

since I have galaxy s2 I have no ram issues